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and pointing to the fact that he'll soon be reporting to prison. >> cohen also revealed more information today saying the president had early knowledge about the wikileaks dump to damage hillary clinton's campaign. and he also showed documents that he says prove the president paid hush money even after taking office. >> we have team coverage including a look at our local lawmakers in that hearing. >> but let's kick o things today with erika gonzalez and the big take-aways here. ichael cohen says he previously lied to protect the president and claimed the president's attorneys revised and edite his past testimony. and he also said nothing from today could help him get a lighter sentence. cohen detailed the moskow trump towerfft that he says went well into the campaign with the candidatump's knowledge. and he also said mr. trump knew ahead of time about the wikileaks dump and trump tower meeting.
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cohen also showed a president wrote after taking office that cohen says repayment for the stormy daniels hush money and he also said the president inflated or deflated his net worth for things like the forbes list or taxes. this hearing started on a contentious note. >> the days of this committee protecting the president at all costs are over. >> first announc witness f the 116th congress is a guy going to prison in two months for lying to akngress. >> i responsibility for my mistakes. i am remorseful. >> our colleagues are not upset because you lied to congress for the president, they're upset lying toou stopped congress for the president. >> any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today? >> ayes, andin those are part of the investigation that's
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currently beingked at. >> how many times did mr. trump ask you to threaten anal indivir entity on his behalf? >> quite a few times. >> 50 times? >> more. >> 100 times? >> more. >> 200 times? >> more. >> 500 times >> probably. >> if it's that s bad i can ou working for him for ten days, maybe even ten months. but you worked for him for ten years. >> the more people thatlo f mr. trump as i did blindly are going to suffer the sameeq conces that i'm suffering. >> one thing multiple republicans asked ouhen, he promise not to try and write a book or sell rights to a movie, cohen each time replied no. m, back over to you. >> high drama. so many sound bites and quotes t of this day. many local lawmakers were thrust into the spotlight during today's hearings. our scott macfarlane continues
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from capitol hill. >> reporter: everyot member five minutes to ask questions on national tv today. that includes from northern virgndia, maryland a d.c. they had a chance to speak before the audice. this carefully choreographed and regimented hearing looked quite different than what was happening outside the doors. cameras and spectators jammed theallways. that include the maryland democrat jamie raskin. >> i think there are probably a lot of people inmeca who are startled to get this inside glimpse on how the trump operation is operating. >> reporter: republicans asked michael cohen if he was seeking a book deal after this testimony andriticized his lies to congress in the past. dcal democrats then defended him. 't be fooled by what my
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friends on the other side of the aisle are trying to do today. it is doing everything but focus on the principle. >> reporter: today these local members of congress had a megaphone swarmed for reaction and comment and mentiong their constituents at home, so many who work for the federal governme m. in fact sy people wanted to be here to listen even the overflow room rtuired a s reservation. >> my own constituents are very muchoncerned that the president doesn't tell the truth. >> reporter: michael cen's back before the hill tomorrow before the house intelligence committee. but for that e, no cameras allowed.it all behind closed doors. >> all right, scott, thank you. we had our theater today and fo many people cohen's testimony was must-see tv. and that meant bars and restaurants in d.c., a lot of them looked more like you'd expect them toe for aig sports game. news 4's cory smith joins us. a he's dow midland in
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northwest d.c. what was that scene like? > reporter: lively to say the least. look, we know d.c. lovesets litic and we knew the bars would be open today when former fbi director james comey testified, they were open. when brett kavanaugh testified,. they were o so going in today with the president's former lawyer on the hill, you b knew thes would be open. politics is entertainment th hearing on capientosl y'hill was must-see tv. hearingseen a lot of before and they tend to be pretty dry. this one has been a lot morely lihan i expected. >> reporter: from the beginning it was clear that michael cohen's hearing was the perfect time to enjoy some draft and drama in d.c. >> people are looking at this as it doesn't happen often in their life, so they want to be a educated tond what's going on. >> reporter: several bars in the district opened their doors
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early. hunter took a break from driving for lyft to watch her first ever congressional hearing. >> i'm prett new to d.c. and this is pretty heavy political climate so i guess it's common people would have come out for this. >> reporr: about a mile away she traded her office for a picnic table surrounded by friends. there was some high drama and some laughter. >> anytime you can have social diskrs and have some levity to it laughing, because otherwise we'd be crying if we actually peeled back the layers to look at the serious nature of what's been going on in our country. >> rorter: and with the potential for more high stakes hearings you can bet the bars will be>> open. his is our political hub for ughter, support. >> reporter: the hearing is going on as we speak, and we have reached that,appy ho so we've seen more people coming in here to the miands to grab a beer, grab a seat and watch the
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testimony. >> and political diskrs does down better with a brew. >> yes, it does. >> news 4 is work for you with complete coverage of michael cohen's hearing. we'll bring you the latest velopments here on our air and on the nbc washington app. just search cohen testimony. jim? >> well wendy while the cohen drama unfolds here in washington. the president is half a world away. wednesday night in vietnam he kicked off his second summit a' with north ko president at the dinner table. >> everybody having good time? >> the white hse called it a social dinner. president trump used the occasion to paint an optimistic picture of kim. >> and our relationship is a very special relationship. >> the two men also met privately wednesday with only their translators in the room. hanoi is 12 hours ahead of washington, so it's early morning there right now. trumim and will also meet on thursday for extended bilateral
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talks aimed at dismantling the country'sar nuceapons program. well, well, well, what is coming in our forecast? storm team 4 is tracking a storm that could affect work on friday. let's check in with doug in the storm center to find out what the time line it on this >> the time line is for friday morning. nothing out there right now. cloudy and cold. that's all we've got. ut take a look at the storm tomorrow. this is tomorrow 5:00 in the afternoon, notice the rain to the south making its way op way, and by the time it gets here the sun will go dons. that m temperatures will cool, and by the time it does move in, any rain moving in as friday morning around 1:00 a.m. into 5:00 a.m., area wide snowfall for just about everybody. that's something we're going to continue to watch for you as it makes its way on through. we do think it's going to have an impact on the morning rush. and yeah, could be school delays, maybe closures.
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we're going to continue to take a closer look atth this. updated snowfall totals map. n just ee you back here a few minutes. a state lawmaker from maryland is under fire sonight fore racist comments she made. delegate maryanne losanti used the n word while referring t district in prince george's county. she has apologized but there are growing calls tonight for her to resign including from maryland senator chris van hollen. tracee wilkinss is gathering new reaction for usto ght. >> her views are of years past. we're moving rward. >> reporter: today the prince george's county executive spoke> out. er opinions don't mean anything. a woman who represents peopley 100 miles a from prince george's county. we know who we are. >> reporter: she admitted and apologized for using the n' word when referring to a legislative
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district in prince george's county. also brook says her racist comment requires more than an apology. >> i think anybody would agree that a person who goes to work and espouses the views she did should be fired. >> i'm deeply apologetic. i made a mistake, and i'm trying to repent for that. >> reporter: today in a brief interview with ouraltimore sister station she apologized again for her commes. she's also apologize today to the leader of the maryland black caucus. the speaker of the house is calling for her to take sensitivity train [strip lasanti of her position. underscores an apology and promise to undergoty diversi training are notshnough.
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today says she has some support from her district. >> my constituents are helping to guide me throu this very difficult time. >> reporter: governor larry hoganmong the many saying she should do the right thing and step down. as it stands right now noor from her on future plans. >> now, the maryland democratic some says it has talked to of her constituents. the party put out a statement today saying they believe her comments are in line with how she legislates, and they want her to resign as well. is it a war memorial, is it a religious symbol. just ahead the supreme court is hearing arguments in a case that will decide the fate of a prince george's county landmark. expose anpush entire industry whose goal is to deceive. what's being done to protectfr u fake online reviews. >> and doreen againstler a look at those home dna tests and their ability to screen for
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tonight. a short time ago we talked to d.c.'s police chief. here's how he described what happened. >> reviewing some video in the area it appears it was a targeted shooting. looks like there were three suspects in the case. three malim ofar age, probably in their late teens to early 20s. they got into a physical altercation with the victim in the case. e of the suspects in the case left the area briefly, returned with a firearm and he shot him multiples. ti >> reporter: and again, an extensive police presence here on the scene while they investigate this fatal shooting. live in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. >> all right, jackie, thank you. maryland students are planning a second walk out tosh or more stringent gun control laws. last yearal you'll r students around the country walked out of class to protest the schooloo shng in parkland, florida.
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a student group is organizing a similar protest now for march th. ey're encouraging students to leave class at 10:00 in the morning. the group willarch from the white house up to capitol hill and mark a moment of silence for eachf the 17 parkland victims. all this b week we han looking at the popularity of those home dna test kits and their growing databases. >> yeah, tonight we turn our attention to the help aspects and why they may not be a good fit for everyone. >> what these tests can and cannot reveal. >> think about this, if you were at risk for developing a lifein threat disease or condition, would you want to know about it? genetic testing put that important medical information right at your fingertips, but there are some drawbacks, to >> it's critically important to understand what those home dna tests are a t whaty're not. >> reporter: it's a combination
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of cutting edge science, curiosity and convenience. do it yourself genetic test kits offer anasy and affordable way to study your dna fr o the comfor your own home. but consider this. >> they are not genetic tests that are designed to answer a medical question about a condition that a person may have or tha other members of their family may have. >> reporter: dr. leslie is a clinical and moleculart geneticisthe national institute of health in puthecen bethesda. >> so i have not had mine tests because i practice what i preach. you don't go into a doctor and have any blood test done just for curiosity. you do it when you need it, and you need it then it's worth it. >> reporter: 23 and me is the a firs only test with fda approval to screen for certain
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cancer risks or alzheimer's or parkinson's without a presipgz. it can also test to see if you're a carrier for genetic conditions. for some knowledge about that is power, but there are liy tations. >> te not test fing for the overwhelming majority of gene changes or mutations or whatever you want to call them that could be causing that. for example, the breast cancer susceptibility gene, there's over 1,000 known gene changes that can causehoseraits. the company tests for three. >> reporter: there's also significant concerns tha the results could reveal you're at risk for developing a disease that has no cure. >> and they sometimes generate answers to questions you might not want. >> rep result that comes without any guidance from a doctor or genetic counselor to help you understand what it really means.
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and iid you d to take the test, be sure to read the fine print because companies can sell your dna for profe. >> they arn many cases also doing research on your dna, and you need to be aware theyay keep that and want to do research on that and make discoveriesn that. >> very interesting to us that two of the top researchers at nih that deal with genetics both say they haven't hwn their dna tested. so the bottom line the doctor says if you have ayamily histr specific health concerns get genetic testing done by a doctor. if you're cure yauious, and jus curious and have no known health issues take theor testun but understand it has limitations. as for the results, employean health insurance companies are not allowed to use your genetic informaon against you. but that protection does not apply to life insurance or long-term c te.
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that part story tomorrow on news 4. wendy, jim? >> very interestg. >> a lot to think about before you, you know -- it's not just about what's my heritage. there's a lot more to it than that. >> learned a lot there. doreen, thanks so much. president george h.w. bush's former service dog gets a new missben. you rememr sully? well, he's going to be helping others, too, right here in our area. and let's go up to chopper 4 rightth now. e are live pictures. some spectacular sweeping views of t hills in northern virginia. and there could be be snown th oem
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wwell, the s is over for the day here at the house oversightn committee capitol hill. michael cohen's testimony, public testimony is now done. he goes bac to the hill tomorrow, but that will be behind closeddoors. we have more on some of the explosive things that occurred hr there today later on in our newscast and toughout the hour including into nightly news. meanwhile let's turn to the weather now and doug joinlz us in the studio.d he is so wor up on this weather on friday he forgot his
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et. >> we're tracking the snow. it's really quitein am we have another storm system coming through where some models are way up here and others down i thinkot a pretty good ere. handle on this one for friday orning as we move through the next 24 hours or so. right now cloud cover. we're starting to see some sun starting to oreak. temperature-wise we are way low average. 40 right now, winds out of the hour.ast at 7 miles per it has been a chilly afternoon. many of you are in the 30s. it has bhen warmer to west. notice 53 in petersburg, 50 degrees in ley. l sun west of the blue ridge today. but to the east we have been soed in with those clouds. see them right there right along the blue ridge? really amaying the mountains actually stopping those clouds from moving farther to the east.
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so a little bit of a bet fr day for you folks. snow to t fth. we're watching that move through. rain to the south. a minor south to the for us we're on the dry side, and we'll stay that way over the next 24 hours. by tomorrow night that's when we'll start to see things change. 8:00 looking okay. as we make our way in through 11:00 tonight, notice some snow moving in tomorrow night into 1: a.m., area wide snow. and watch what happens around 5:00 a.m. everybody getti in on the action as soon as snow is concerned, and we are expecting this to accumulate now as we move on through. by 8:00 in the morning it is gone. most of fridang mor is dry. this storm moves out very quickly but not before it has a bit of an impact. tching the temperatures to see just how cold it will get for the friday mning commute. light snow accumulation is expected. how much am i expecting? well, one to three inches.
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three is o the high side here, but even in the city prooubly an inch in the city. but montgomery county maybe 2, 3 inches there. a coatingen to an inch well to the south. this is sometng i'm going to continue to track for you very, very closely. it's happening friday morning for the rush, that's why i do think we could have some schools delayed or even canceled early on friday morning because of that impactful event. most of it dry and a temperature of 53. 42 on sunday that with a rain snowstorm, and then behind that cold.t get look at these 30s. but that's not it, guys. w about this for wind chills on tuesday. let me get out of the way for you. thatin tuesday mo my friends. here's tuesday afternoon, my friends. a wind chill of 13 degrees in gathesburg. we're talking some arctic cold.
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>> i w t goi say we averted our eyes. all ght, coming up our continuing coverage of our top story this evening. >> the testimony of president trump's former attorney on capitol hill. >> you just debated a member of congress sayin do anything wrong with the false things i'm guilty of and going to prison for. >> that's not what -- plus the new develments in th case of a schoolteacher
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breaking now at 5:30, capitohill's first blockbuster of 2019 in the books. >> it was something. michaelcohen, the president's former attorney wrapped up testimony to a house committ just momen ago. >> and he unloaded a barrage of amizations calling his former boss a racist, a con man and a cheat. >> trump knew from roger stone wikileaks. about the >> the first announced witness for the 116th congress is a guy going to prison in two months for lyingo congress. >> president trump would often say this campaign was goingo be the greatest infomercial in political history. >> i don't believe that michael cohen is capable of telling the truth. >> i have lied, but i am not a liar. i have fixed things, but i am no
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longer your fixer, mr. trump. >> michael cohen came out of the gate this morningg he regrets ever working for and giving support to president trump. >> he also apologized to members of congress for lying, something he says he did to protect the president. and as republicans pointed to plenty of issues with cohen's tsedibility, democ pressed plump's long time fixer on a range of isss. well, joining us now with a look at what this hearing means in the bigger scheme of things is nbc's julia ainsley live at the justice department. he had plenty of new revelations today. whaty jumped at you the most? >> reporter: a few things. i would say first michael cohen said he witnessed a phone call between roger stone and then candidate trump about and the fact they had e-mails that would be damaging to hillary clinton just ahead of their leak of this to damage trump's opponent.
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did not say whether or not he knew this was part of the hack or the russians were involved, but he said he witnessed that. he also said the president signed ches to reimburse him to stormy daniels and he exhibited those checks. and he went beyond that to say the president at one point had hiir get the lady on the phone and lie to her about the president's relationship with the adult film star stormy daniels. he seemed very remorseful, as he he went before congress today he knew he had a credibility issue. he anyhow the last time he was before them he lied about it. but he did not say that the president explicitly told him to lie. instea he said that the president's lawyer could review that testimony knowing that he would lie, and he said it was just understood it was in the president's code he would not tell the truth about how far into the 2016 campaign trump continued in his negotiations to build a trump tower in moskow. >> all right, so given that he
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isoing to prison and he said this isn't hoing top lessen his sentence, what motive would he have to reveal all of thie >> you know,id it was to clear his good name. he wants to restore faithen him. he says he now has to walk behind his family because he gets so many attacks on the street, verbal attacks from people upset with him becse of e work he did. so now he's going out of his way to clear his fame. it seems there are other motivations as well from republicaness who want to discredit him saying once a liar always a liar. and of course we have the big motivation from demoinats, now ontrol of that committee, in control of the house. they have subpoena power. they wanted to bring michael cohen before this committee in a public setting to showow that k hew working for the president and how much his hand was iolved in the day to day
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operations, whether it was negotiations f trump tower, payment to stormy daniels or coordination withil wks during the campaign. >> thanks so much for joining us. and look for all of the latest n from the political team. just ahead on nightly news with lester hol starting at 7:00. the highest court in the nation heard one of theost visive issues in our country today. the separation of church and state. it is over this peace cro re. protesters on both sides held signs. others waited in long lin to witness oral arguments. news 4 darcy spencer with both sides of this controversial issue. >> reporter: they lined up hours ahead of time just to hear a few minutes of the u.s. supreme court oral arguments in the case against peace cross. >> i think it's a shame because i think we need tem rber the historic part of what we have, whether it's somethi proud of or not proud of. >> reporter: the memorial stands 40 feet tall at theusy intersection of baltimore avenue. it was dedicated in 1925 to
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dozens of prince george's county men who died in world war i. one of those men was the uncle of mary ann. >> his name was o the cross and i just feel to do anything to the cross was would be an abomination. >> reporter: but opponentsrgue the cross is a religious symbol, a viotion of church and state. it's on public land maintained with taxdollars. they want it gone. >> claiming that it doesn't change a clear message of government support for christianity in the face of reason. >> very proud to be part f an organization and coalition doing everything it can at every turn to fight back and push back this tide ofreing theocracy in our country. >> reporter: attorneys supporting the memorial argue it has stood here for nearly 100
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years and at the time it was built the cross was an acceptable symbol to honorhose who died at war, and that it's not an establishment of religion. >> that's the standard we're asking the court today to adopt salook, unless the government coerces you into some sort of religious belief or behavior, the first amendment is not epoffended. >>ter: darcy spencer, news 4. >> now, the supreme court is expected to make itsg ruln june. >> a break in the shooting of a d.c.pochoolteacher. ce arrest the suspect for a januarysa murder anthat same man also shot the teacher. that teacher talked to news 4's ris gordon as the city continues to look for ways to lower crime. >> reporter: mayor bowser leads this community walkng stres safety and efforts to reduce crime on d.c. streets. the arrest of ausct in the january 15th murder of williams of northeast is a sign the police department may be making progress in the fight against repeat offenders with guns.
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22-year-old tyree brandon irving was identified by detectivesit ass saying i saw him walk up and shoot multiple times. >> we want it to be faster, and we will continue to deploy the full range of services and interventions and mpd will continue to do its great investigative work. >> reporter: tyree irving is also charged in a second shooting on february 18th on north capital street a b went through the windshield of this car wounding its driver in the hand andasace. he still bullet lodged in his cheek. today i spoke with him by face time. he's charged with assault with a handgun in your shooting. at's your reaction? >> i ao find out that h as involved ither shooting
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just this past january. so i'm glad he found rthem. orter: he ended our face time call by saying he hopes his alleged shooter gtyree irvin gets the help he needs. chris gordon, news 4. new headquarters in noriaern virginove forward. the new time line for tst start of cction. and a stock market shocker. this is not the way you want . lo oprah losing nearly $50 million in a matter of minutes and right now we have some kids visiting from nih, and of course thesaid we want to see the homework meter. so where's it going to land? doug and are going to be breaking down the timing and impact. but befe we head to break we have to leave you with the amazing pictures
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e trouble ght be in s but he's okay. the search for justice is over. today we learned the beloved bald eag is alive and well. after nearly three weeks away he this afternoon to his nest above the d.c. police academy. but his long time meatty lib wasn't there waiting for him. she appears to have flown the coop, abandoning justice, their nest and two eggs he stay tuned. and we have a consumer aleri t about a potential danger on our roads. there's new data that shows
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nearly0 26, vehicles in the d.c. region have had their odometers rolled back, and most drivers have no idea. consumer reporter susan hogan working for you protecting your mo and your safety. >> reporter: wendy, imagine how ba i you would be you just spent thousands of dollars on a used car only to fin out i worth thousands of dollarsto le. make matters worse it's agued with hidden issues. odometer fraud is not only illegal, it cod also put your mily in danger. it didn't take us very long to find a number of cars for s oe in area with potential odometer roll backs. some rolled back 60,000 miles. so when we called the dealer they assured usas mileage w exactly what their but the car fax reports told us a different story. >> the real dange here is that there's literally no trace that the odometer has been tampered with. so without getting the information, having a mechanic inspect it, it's very difficult
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to tell someones taken 50, 100,000 miles off the car. >> we found a potential odometer roll back, so that's when we went undercover to get some answers. coming up tonight at 11:00, what you need to know before you buy. >> some great stuff there. susan, thanks so much. they can drive your being decisions but can you trust them? coming up next the first o its kindny lawsuit against a com using fake reviews and how you can tell if what you're reading h real. and gained national presidentas former george h.w. bush's service dog. well, sully has a new mission and it's going to take him to
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former president george h.w. bush's service dog has a new mission. it was president bush's wish to have sully serve at walter reed.
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and today that wish was granted. >> reporter: there aren't words to describe the bond that a dog can provide its owner. but pictures do some justice to explain the lovesheorge h.w. ad for his companion in the days and months after his wife passed away. evan was the president' person aid. >> i can tell you personally how much that dogd provio much love and care andport when you need it. >> reporter: sully was by president bush's side at the rotunda when he lay in repose, and by his casket. this picturero quicklyht attention to the service dogs like sully can provide. >> sully, shake. >> reporter: he even appeare on the "today" show meeting his namesake captain sully sullenburger who landed the u.s air ways flight in the hudsonhe river after engines failed.
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but it was president bush's wis after he died sully would go toalter reed and provide the the same rrior with love he received. >> today we may special tribute and say welcome aboard to true patriot, sully h.w. bush. >> reporter: so todayn an official ceremony at the as lity, sully was welcomed a service dog by the director of the medical center. he'll join otherk-9s in making hundreds of visits a day. but now those men and women who gave so much to our country will be reminded through sully that even in his passing president bush's desire to serve them and his country lives. >> but it's mostly going to be bringing, you know, good cheer and good spirits with the president's dog coming to visit in you hospital be that's going to get your >>attention. eautiful dogs. and for even more context on the work that these dogs do, walter
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reed says they average 2,500 contacts and mor than 200 working hours a month. >> wow, they do a lot more than hands. >> exactly. forward today p in amazon's arrival in northern virginia. the ceo of jbg smith properties made that announcement inis nual letter to shareholders. the letter says construction could begin within the next year. it is finalizing entitlements and zoning for it three properties amazon will move into. and the federal governmt is cracking down on fake online ve reviews. how rampant those questionablea comments become. the unprecedented step the ftc just took. >> reporter: for the first time the federal trade commission haa
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fine company for buying fake online reviews. the ederal agency alleges weight loss supplement company paid a third party website to write and post reviews on amazon. now, last year the i-team uncovered an entire industry aimed at fooling you with individuals and companies o willing write positive reviews for a price, businesses offering refunds to remove negative reviews, and p reviews using politician or celebrity photos without their knowledge. it is illegal to post any reviews that are false, misleading or don't disclose a lationship between the customer and business. the ftc says r there are flags you can look for when reading online reviews. >> some warning signs o potentially fake reviews are if you see a lot of reviews posted for a product at the same time. it's highly tunlikelyt occurs natural. and if someone is reviewing a local e aablishment their address is far from there. >> reporter: as part of the selement thec is requiring
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that weight loss supplement company to notify its customers and amazon about the allegation. to read more about the case and watch our entire fake review series visit our nbc washington app and cck on investigation. well, oprah just shed tens of millions of dollars with weight watchers. stock tumed more than 4% today. oprah owns more than 5 million shares andt cost her $50 million. the company says it missed the mark on memberships. it is down 10%, setting the tone for the rest of the year. now weight watchers plans to go all in on oprah. she will be the focus in its marketing campaign. all right, well, we are shedding warmer weather w mither for another big blast of winter. >> yeah, i mean you talk about big blasts, thisom may rival of the coldest we've seen this
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season. we may even be close t record low temperatures in here come next week. i mean, we're really talking about some really cold air aking its way in here next week. maybe even below zero at times. take a look at today. today, look d.c., 40 degrees. 61 right now in west virginia. charleston, west virginia, 66 degrs. cold air right down towards the bottomhe , towards -- ylthat the our rockville camera? that's our rockvil roanoke 50, charleston at 56. cool air keeping things on the side. no rain to talk about. we're not going to see anything untilomorrow morning. starting to see some sun out here, but we have been socked win the clouds all day. just to the west of the
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mountains, though, win chest, nothing but sunshine out theret afternoon. once again the mountains right here, the blue ridge really taking its hold on us. snow coming in tomorrow night into friday morning. snow area wide. 5:00 a.m., snow tining. around 4:00 a.m. coming down at a pretty good cl and out of here by 8:00. it is a quick moving system but going to have an impact. how much snow. 3 coulbe on the high side here, but one inch most likely most areas espially on t grassy surfaces. but even on some of the adways uld be a problem early friday morning. and we're talking about some delays and cancellations with schools, we think we may see some. >> that's why the homework meter is landing o a delay. plan on sleeping in. t could stillc change a little bit one way or another. so you still have to tune in to news 4 today. kids thursday night probably want to t make surese pjs are turned inside out if you want a
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delay out there on your friday morning. right now school delays are looking likely for a lot of the edistricts. maeven some isolated cancellations, but the workplace is definitely looking openn friday with the snow out of here by about 8:00, 9:00 a.m. so if you can hold up on your commute until that point i think tha t s goin be the way to go. or if you can telecommute, no worries. wl may want to think about doing something like that. how about flight delays? i think most flights are to get in and out out of the area no problem. but if your flight is taking off very early before 8:00 a.m., it might be an issue out there on friday morng. so you may want to check with your airline. the road conditions oute, th now tomorrow night at this time it is still completely dry. so getting home from w nk, absoluteproblems out there with dry conditions. friday morning out there some slick spots for sure especially on main roads as we look to friday around the midday and afternoon mhours,be a slick spot on those neighborhood roads eor your sidewalks especially if you're noting them.
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but throughout the day, doug, temperatures warm to above ann another storm system on tfreezing. enday, and like you wer saying it just gets really cold around here towards the beginning of march. >> when wooo see snow on friday it's not going to last long. a lot of cloud cover. degrees on saturday. 53 saturday, a chance of a shower, not much on saturday. it's rain ornow on sunday. that could be a bigger storm. that's one we're really wating for you. temperature around 42. best chance of snow will be north and west of the city. frigid freezing and just plain cold. arctic air makingur its way way. look at those lows in thens tee and 20
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and finally a law enforcement officer in prince william county has beeighting more than crime in the decades he has served there. he's also been breaking racial barriers. >> and in the process he hassp ed another officer who has gone onto break racial and gender barriers. news 4 mark seagraves with that story. >> reporter:glendale hill has been sheriff of prince william county h for 15 years, bs been a cop for a lot longer than that. >> it'll j be 50 yearsy first of this year. s
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>> reporter: hoken down more than one racial barrier in the predominantly white countya ng with his first job as the first african-american police officer on the manassas city police pament. >> there were noblack employees who worked for the town at all. >> reporter: that was in 1969. hill recalls it wasn't easy for a black man to find a p live in the city. >> the apartment i was living in i only could live in a couple of places in manassas. >> reporter: 35 years later hill would achieve two morefirsts. >> i am the first black sheriff in prince william county and the first to be elected to a county wide position. >> reporter: she credits him for opening doors to her generation. she's theirst assistant chief at the manassas police anpartment, the first african-american wo rise to the second highest position in the depar where hill started 50 years ago. >> hearing ability this man and the things that he did and knowing the barriers that he had
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to break and the path he had to go through and then so many years later then come through. and i'm there again at the same poli>> department. eporter: hill learned early in his career one of the best ways to break down racial barriers was being the best police officer he could be. >> when you hel peoplehey will never forget you. they don't care what color you are or what rac you are or where you come from. >> right now at 6:00, turning on trump. >> i'm here to tell the truth about mr. trump. >> did you lie to protect the president or lie to protect yourself? plus, face-to-face. the president and kim jong-un's nuclear summit under way. can the president get more than just talk from north korea. a marand delegate using the n word. >> i think she should be fired, i think she should resign. >> reporter: and the peace cross, why both sides are
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confident they'll prevail. we begin our newscastith a national moment, another one. >> americans have been riveted all day long to the testimony of the president's forr attorney and fixer michael cohen. the republican strategy became clear early on, take allst of cohen's ony as unreliable because he's already admitted to lying to congress. at one point they put up a sign shing this picture and this schoolyard taunt. cohen called them out on it. >> liar, liar pants on fire. >> i'm responsible for your silliness because i did the same thing that you're doing now for ten years. i protectedr. trump for ten yearea >> thatng just wrapped up within the hour. our team coverage starts now with blayne alexander. >> reporter: do a

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